Using Technology to Grow Your Business

Growing a business is challenging. What used to work in the ramen days with two people in your garage suddenly doesn’t work anymore as the company grows. Understanding what drives your productivity is the most challenging and rewarding part of being a business owner.

At the start, you’re powered by passion. Your group works all night toward a common goal to get the job done. But you can’t continue to hire employees and hold everything together with passion alone. So you start focusing on your people.

Your people specialize: accounting, sales, marketing, operations, etc. You organize yourselves by making spreadsheets, having meetings and sending emails. But as you grow, your spreadsheets get out of hand, you receive more email than you can track, you don’t have time for any more meetings, yet there are still more demands on your time.

What does becoming process oriented look like? For most companies, this means enabling business collaboration with a tool like SharePoint, so that mindshare, best practices and documents can all be centralized in one place, instead of hidden in email boxes and disorganized shared drives. Focusing on process also often involves improved business intelligence that shows you what you need to know by title or area of interest, with drill-down where needed.

Enabling these tools to improve your process may be easy to implement with off the shelf products, but sometimes a more nuanced solution is required. Let Entrance help you evaluate your needs and determine the best solutions on the market. The payoff in productivity and ability to grow the company will be well worth the effort.

Nate has over 18 years of software engineering and consulting experience. He founded Entrance in 2003. Nate is the past President of the Board of LifeHouse Houston, a Christ-centered maternity home ministry, and is past Executive committee member and Treasurer of Houston Achievement Place, a foster care and social skills training non-profit organization.

We'll finish your project on time and make sure your users receive training & support. You'll have full visibility and control of the project at all times. Unlike other firms, if the project goes over budget, you won't pay an extra dime.

We'll finish your project on time and make sure your users receive training & support. You'll have full visibility and control of the project at all times. Unlike other firms, if the project goes over budget, you won't pay an extra dime.

We'll finish your project on time and make sure your users receive training & support. You'll have full visibility and control of the project at all times. Unlike other firms, if the project goes over budget, you won't pay an extra dime.